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My reverb is controlled by my bass knob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bought this amp through ebay. Loved it, it worked great, buzzed a little too much I thought for solid state Peavey, but i was in high school and did not have money for a cap job yet and was too affraid to do it myself. Eventually the volume was not as loud anymore and it got really noisy, and I felt buzzing in my arm while I played. I put it away until recently where i decided to do a cap job on it.
here's where i messed up, The first caps I replaced were the big power caps off the x-former, and I put one in backwards, 3 times in a row. I was very tired, and all three of those times I used new caps after blowing the crap out of a couple fuses.
After finally successfully replacing the power caps I turned it on and it was still really noisy, and now the bass knob controls reverb. Did a full cap job, and now the amp is a lot quieter, but the bass knob still controls the reverd and so fourth, I'm saying that none of the knobs do what they are supposed to anymore and even turning all the knobs down, i still get a good amount of volume.
I checked the x-sistors, all of them, with my multimeter as a diode test. any of them that didn't fully comply, i pulled them out and did the test again. they all passed. I checked all resistors in circuit and none had extremely high resistance. I also checked all the diodes and made sure they only ran one way. Like I said, i replaced all the caps, and i double checked all the values. there is no ic chips, it's that old.
Someone please help me. I'm stuck to this amp, and I don't think I can rest until it's solved. I'm almost willing to replace it piece by piece just to find out for myself what it is. This is my first real amp project, I've recapped peavey before, but never went this in-depth.
I bought this amp through ebay. Loved it, it worked great, buzzed a little too much I thought for solid state Peavey, but i was in high school and did not have money for a cap job yet and was too affraid to do it myself. Eventually the volume was not as loud anymore and it got really noisy, and I felt buzzing in my arm while I played. I put it away until recently where i decided to do a cap job on it.
here's where i messed up, The first caps I replaced were the big power caps off the x-former, and I put one in backwards, 3 times in a row. I was very tired, and all three of those times I used new caps after blowing the crap out of a couple fuses.
After finally successfully replacing the power caps I turned it on and it was still really noisy, and now the bass knob controls reverb. Did a full cap job, and now the amp is a lot quieter, but the bass knob still controls the reverd and so fourth, I'm saying that none of the knobs do what they are supposed to anymore and even turning all the knobs down, i still get a good amount of volume.
I checked the x-sistors, all of them, with my multimeter as a diode test. any of them that didn't fully comply, i pulled them out and did the test again. they all passed. I checked all resistors in circuit and none had extremely high resistance. I also checked all the diodes and made sure they only ran one way. Like I said, i replaced all the caps, and i double checked all the values. there is no ic chips, it's that old.
Someone please help me. I'm stuck to this amp, and I don't think I can rest until it's solved. I'm almost willing to replace it piece by piece just to find out for myself what it is. This is my first real amp project, I've recapped peavey before, but never went this in-depth.
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